• PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Ultimately you can’t control who they become. You can at least give them the tools to be the best they can if they so choose. It’s more of a head start than not teaching them.

    There will always be peer influence and societal pressure, but I see it kind of like vaccines. You need “herd immunity” for it to make an effective change.

    I, too, was a young adult in the 2000s, and had a lot of those influences. I’ve moved past that, and hopefully my lessons will sink in with my boys now.

    I can’t speak to girls since I do not have daughters, but what you said makes sense.